wiped-out

[ wahypt-out ]

adjective

, Slang.

1. completely exhausted.
2. intoxicated; high.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wiped-out¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

But moving to New York, and getting an apartment in New York, wiped out our cash savings.

From Salon

He left his home and was told that the neighborhood was wiped out.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’ve found that if you rest a bit and have something to eat, you’ll not feel as wiped out.”

From Los Angeles Times

There were efforts to de-escalate the trade dispute, but the Covid pandemic wiped out this possibility, and relations got worse as the former president labelled Covid a “Chinese virus”.

From BBC

In Beirut — a city devastated by Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, the 2006 war with Israel and then a gargantuan 2020 accidental port explosion that wiped out 87,000 homes — that attitude comes sooner than most places, less due to romantic notions of resilience but rather because of experience under fire.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• bankrupt
• exhausted
• impoverished
• indigent
• insolvent
• needy
• penniless
• poor
• poverty-stricken
• strapped